Jennifer Heil

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Jennifer Heil Freestyle skiing
Jennifier Heil (4) .jpg
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday April 11, 1983
place of birth Spruce Grove
Career
discipline Moguls, dual moguls
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 4 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Turin 2006 Moguls
silver Vancouver 2010 Moguls
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships
gold Ruka 2005 Dual moguls
gold Madonna di Campiglio 2007 Dual moguls
silver Madonna di Campiglio 2007 Moguls
silver Inawashiro 2009 Moguls
gold Deer Valley 2011 Moguls
gold Deer Valley 2011 Moguls
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup 5th December 1999
 World Cup victories 21st
 Overall World Cup 1st ( 2006/07 )
 Mughal World Cup 1. ( 2003/04 , 2004/05 , 2005/06 ,
2006/07, 2009/10 )
 Dual Moguls World Cup 1st (2006/07)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Moguls 24 20th 6th
 Dual moguls 1 5 2
last change: March 20, 2011

Jennifer Heil (born April 11, 1983 in Spruce Grove , Alberta ) is a Canadian freestyle skier who is one of the most successful female athletes , especially in the mogul slope disciplines Moguls and Dual Moguls. She is Olympic champion, overall world cup winner and four-time world champion.

biography

Heil first got on skis when he was two years old. Her father, a lawyer, taught the Canadian and her sister the basics. They started the Moguls sport at the age of nine . At the age of 13, Heil played her first international competitions in the Nor-Am Cup in February 1997 . There she achieved good placings early on and came on the podium for the first time in January 1999 in Le Relais as second. After winning the Dual Moguls in February of the same year at Fortress Mountain - with which she won the Nor-Am Cup in that discipline - she made her debut in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup at the beginning of winter 1999/2000 . There, however, she initially only came to one mission, which she finished 29th and penultimate.

In the 2000/01 World Cup , Heil then made his breakthrough to the top of the world. She placed in the top ten several times in a row and made it to the World Cup podium for the first time in January 2001 by finishing second at Mont Tremblant . In addition, as in the previous year, she won the Canadian championship titles in both Moguls and Dual Moguls. So it came as no surprise when the newcomer was the best Canadian at the 2001 World Cup and was seventh in the Moguls. After the world championship, another podium followed in Himos , where she was third. Overall, she was ranked fourth in the discipline World Cup, and eighth in the overall World Cup. Thanks to her great success in the very first season, she was named Rookie of the Year .

In 2001 Dominick Gauthier became Heil's coach; this bond continues to this day. The 2001/02 season began with little success for Heil, but it was back in good shape in January 2002 and again reached the podium in Oberstdorf in third place. As one of the youngest athletes in Team Canada, she traveled to the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . There she was the first freestyle skier ever to show the 360 iron cross , in which she half-turns, puts the ski tips down, crosses and - before she completes the turn - takes them apart again. As fourth out of 29 participants, she missed an Olympic medal by just under a hundredth of a point. Immediately after the Olympics, she celebrated her first World Cup victory in Inawashiro , followed by another second place in the Dual Moguls. In the overall ratings of the two disciplines, she achieved fourth place in the dual moguls and sixth in the moguls.

During the 2002/03 season, Heil did not start in any international competitions, as she trained individually like two other Canadian athletes. The 2003/04 World Cup was very successful for her. In the first five races she finished in the top two four times, including two wins. Even after that, she reached the podium five times and triumphed again. With these good performances she won the title in the Mughal World Cup for the first time, which she also succeeded in the following two seasons. Heil started the 2004/05 season even more successfully than in the pre-winter season , in which she even won five times. So she took part as one of the favorites in the 2005 World Cup, where she was only fifth in the Moguls, but secured the gold medal in the Dual Moguls.

The winter of 2005/06 was salvation's most successful. In the seven Moguls World Cups before the Olympics, Heil won twice and came second four times. At the 2006 Winter Olympics , she left defending champion Kari Traa no chance on the first day of competition and won the gold medal with a 0.85 point lead. The Canadian, who was wrongly called up as an American at the awards ceremony, said: “A dream has come true for me. That's what I've worked so long, so hard for. ”After the Olympic Games, she won two more World Cups and was Canadian champion again. In the 2006/07 World Cup , too , she had some successes, such as a winning streak of six World Cups in a row. In addition, she was again world champion in the dual moguls and won World Cup silver in the moguls. After Heil had skipped the 2007/08 season for health reasons, she managed another victory in the 2008/09 World Cup . At the 2009 World Championships , she won the silver medal on the moguls.

In the 2009/10 season, Heil again dominated the World Cup. With four wins, two second and two third places, she decided the discipline ranking clearly for herself. In the overall World Cup, she took third place. She didn't quite live up to her favorite role at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games : In the Moguls competition in Cypress Mountain near Vancouver , she had to admit defeat to the American Hannah Kearney and won the silver medal. The duel with Kearney continued in the 2010/11 season. Heil was mostly left behind in the World Cup and narrowly missed victory six times. In contrast, at the 2011 World Championships in Deer Valley, she took revenge when she won the gold medal in the Kearney Mughal competition. A few days later, she became dual moguls world champion for the third time.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

World Cup victories

So far, Heil has achieved 58 podium places, including 25 victories:

date place country discipline
March 3, 2002 Inawashiro Japan Moguls
December 19, 2003 Madonna di Campiglio Italy Moguls
January 17, 2004 Lake Placid United States Moguls
February 29, 2004 Špindlerův Mlýn Czech Republic Moguls
December 16, 2004 Tignes France Moguls
January 15, 2005 Lake Placid United States Moguls
January 29, 2005 Deer Valley United States Moguls
February 6, 2005 Inawashiro Japan Moguls
February 11, 2005 Naeba Ski Resort Japan Moguls
December 18, 2005 Oberstdorf Germany Moguls
January 28, 2006 Madonna di Campiglio Italy Moguls
March 1, 2006 Jisan South Korea Moguls
March 5, 2006 Inawashiro Japan Moguls
February 5, 2007 La Plagne France Moguls
February 6, 2007 La Plagne France Dual moguls
February 17, 2007 Inawashiro Japan Moguls
February 24, 2007 apex Canada Moguls
March 2, 2007 Voss Norway Moguls
March 3, 2007 Voss Norway Moguls
January 31, 2009 Deer Valley United States Moguls
February 7, 2009 Cypress Mountain Canada Moguls
January 8, 2010 Calgary Canada Moguls
January 9, 2010 Calgary Canada Moguls
January 14, 2010 Deer Valley United States Moguls
January 16, 2010 Deer Valley United States Moguls

More Achievements

  • 1 Canadian Championship (2006)

Web links

Commons : Jennifer Heil  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jennifer Heil on slam.canoe.ca. Retrieved February 1, 2009.
  2. ↑ Results on fis-ski.com. Retrieved February 1, 2009.
  3. ↑ James Christie: Heil ready to race again , The Globe and Mail, December 12, 2008.
  4. ↑ Ron Manz: Sky's the limit for young Olympian on slam.canoe.ca. Published on 29 January 2002 in the Calgary Sun . Retrieved February 1, 2009.
  5. ↑ Ann-Marie Metten: Ski superstar Jennifer Heil  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on alive.com. Published in January 2007 in alive # 291 . Retrieved February 1, 2009.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.alive.com  
  6. ↑ RESULTS WOMEN'S MOGULS (PDF; 89 kB) on fis-ski.com. Retrieved February 1, 2009.
  7. ↑ Canadian Freestyle Ski Association Announces 2002-2003 teams on sirc.ca. Press release, published July 2002. Accessed February 1, 2009.
  8. ↑ Heil: Sad despite victory on Abendblatt.de. Published on February 13, 2006 in the Hamburger Abendblatt . Retrieved February 1, 2009.
  9. ↑ Jörg Schröder: The first female Olympic champion in 2006 is Jennifer Heil - victory on the moguls on live-wintersport.com. Released February 11, 2006. Accessed February 1, 2009.
  10. ↑ Olympian Jennifer Heil to sit out this season on cbc.ca. Released January 15, 2008. Accessed February 1, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Hail, Jennifer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian skier
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Spruce Grove , Alberta